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A Tentative Program 

FOR 

Community Centers 



Chicago Board of Education 




January, 1919 



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The Committee on Community Center- 

Board of Education ■ 

Chicago, Illinois 

Community Center Committee, 

MR. MAX LOEB. Chairman 
MR. ERNEST J. KRUETGEN 
MRS. CHARLES O. SETHNESS 
MR. JOHN W. ECKHART 
MRS. JOHN MacMAHON 
MRS. GEORGE P. VOSBRINK 
PRESIDENT JACOB M. LOEB, Ex-Officio 
Acting Secretary of Advisory Commission, 
EDWARD L. BURCHARD 

Assistant Secretary, 

MISS ALICE H. THOMPSON 

Members of the Community Center Committee are ex-officio 
members of all committees of the Advisory Commission. 



GEORGE W. EGGERS, 
Director, Art Institute 

ALDERMAN JAMES A. LONG, 
Chairman, Council Committee 
on Parks, Playgrounds and 
Beaches 

FRED G. HEUCHLING, 

Secretary, Civil Service Board, 
West Chicago Park Commis- 
sioners 

E. L. BURCHARD, 

Editor, Community Center 

WILLIAM A. BOND, 

Americanization Committee, 
Chicago Ass'n. of Commerce 

PHILIP L. SEMAN, 

Superintendent, Chicago Hebrew 
Institute 

EUGENE, T. LIES, 

Superintendent War Camp 
Community Service 

HARRY A. LIPSKY, 
Jewish Daily Courier 

L. A. CALVIN, 

Secretary Patriotic Community 
Council of Cook County 

FELIX STREYCKMANS, 

Chief, Foreign Language 
Division of Liberty Loan 
Committee 

MRS. HARLAN WARD COOLEY, 
Chicago Woman's Club 

MRS. DUNLAP SMITH, 
Woman's City Club 

MRS. MORRIS WOOLF, 

Chicago Woman's Aid, also 
Chicago Woman's Club (Com- 
munity Center Committee) 

WILFRED S. REYNOLDS, 

President Central Council of 
Social Agencies 

CARL RODEN, 

Librarian, Chicago Public 
Library 

JOHN METZ, 

Former I'resideut, Carpenters' 
District Council 

JOSEPH HOPP, 

President Motion Picture 
Exhibitors' League 



CHARLES H. WACKER, 

Chicago Plan Commission 
MRS. MOSES L. PURVIN, 

First Vice-President Council of 

Jewish Women 
MRS. HENRY SOLOMON, 

Woman's Committee, Council 

of National Defense 
ALICE H. THOMPSON, 

President Eli Bates House 

LORADO TAFT 
DR. W. A. EVANS, 

Former Commissioner of Health 
MRS. WILLIAM S. HEFFERAN, 

President Parent-Teachers' 

Federation 
JOHN R. RICHARDS, 

Superintendent of Recreation, 

South Park Board 

MRS. HERMAN RIESER, 

Chairman, Social Center Com- 
mittee, Johanna Lodge 

MRS. FREDERICK D. SILBER, 
Chairman, Community Center 
Committee, Chicago Womans 
Club 

MRS. ROBERT J. ROULSTON, 
L. WILBUR MESSER 

General Secretarv, Y. M. C. A. 
PROF. NATHANIEL BUTLER, 

Director. University Lecture 

Association 
ANGUS HIBBARD, 

Director, Civic Music Assn. 
DR. GRAHAivx TAYLOR, 

Warden, Chicago Commons 
H. C. BAKER, 

Chicago Daily News 

MRS. HARRY HART, 

State Council of Defense 

WALTER WRIGHT, 

Secretary Bureau of Parks, 
Public Playgrounds & Beaches, 
Department Public Works 

JENS HANSEN 
• « President Security Bank 



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COMMITTEES OF THE ADVISORY COMMISSION 
ON COMMUNITY CENTERS 



MRS. HENRY SOLOMON. 
LORADO TAFT, 



MRS. HEN^y SOLOMON, 
EUGENE T. LIES, 
MRS. DUNLAP SMITH, 



Art Exhibits: 

GEORGE W. EGGERS, Chairman, 

H. C. BAKER, 

MRS. DUNLAP SMITH, 

Classes in English and Citizenship: 

PROF. NATHANIEL BUTLER, HARRY A. LirSKY, 

Chairman, L. WILBUR MESSER, 

FELIX STREYCKMANS, JENS Ha\NSEN. 
MRS. FRED. SILBER, 

Sub-Committee on Chicago Association of Commerce Classes 
in English and Citizenship: 
WILLIAM A. BOND, Chairman. 

Community Councils: 

L. A. GALVIN and MISS ALICE 

THOMPSON, Joint Chairmen, 
E. L. BURCHARD, 
MRS. WILLIAM S. HEFFERAN, 

Music : 

ANGUS HIBBARD, Chairman, MRS. FRED SILBER. 
E. L. BURCHARD. MRS. HARRY HART, 

GEORGE W. EGGERS, 

Speakers' Bureau: 

MRS. H. WARD COOLEY. 

Chairman, 
H. C. BAKER, 

Secretaries and Other Paid Workers: 

EUGENE T. LIES, Chirman. L. A. CALVIN, 

PHILIP L. SEMAN, JOHN R. RICHARDS 

WILFRED S. REYNOLDS, 

Placing Equipment and Adaptation: 
CHARLES H. WACKER, 

Chairman, 
CARL RODEN, 

Films : 

JOSEPH HOPP, Chairman, 
CARL RODEN. 

Health and Sanitation: 

DR. W. A. EVANS, Chairman, 
JOHN METZ. 



CHARLES H. WACKER, 
JOHN METZ, 
HARRY A. LIPSKY, 



MRS. W. S. HEFFERAN, 
LORADO TAFT 



MRS. HANNAH SOLOMON. 



ALD. JOHN A. LONG. 



Organizations of "New Americans' 



FELIX STREYCKMANS, 

Chairman, 
HARRY A. LIPSKY, 
JENS HANSEN, 
WILLIAM A. BOND, 

Community Civics: 

WILFRED S. REYNOLDS, 

Chairman, 
EUGENE T. LIES, 
PHILIP L. SEMAN, 
MRS. MORRiS WOOLF, 

Library Co-operation: 

CARL RODEN, Chairman. 
GEORGE W. EGGERS, 

Vocational Practice Work: 

JOHN METZ, Chairman, 

MRS. WILLIAM S. HEFFERAN, 

Summer Activities: 

MRS. ROBERT J. ROULSTON, 

Chairman, 
MRS. HERMAN RIESER, 

Training of Community Center Workers: 

FRED G. HEUCHLING, 

Chairman, 
PROF. GRAHAM TAYLOR, 
GEORGE W. EGGERS, 

Playgrounds and Athletics: 

WALTER WRIGHT, Chairman, 
FRED. G. HEUCHLING. 
ALD. JAMES A. LONG, 



MRS. FRED SILBER, 
MISS ALICE H. THOMPSON, 
L. WILBUR MESSER, 
MRS. MOSES PURVIN, 



MRS. DUNLAP SMITH. 
MRS. HARRY HART, 
DR. GRAHAM TAYLOR, 
MRS. MOSES PURVIN, 



MRS. MORRIS WOOLF. 



PHILIP L. SEMAN, 
MRS. MORRIS WOOLF. 



FRED. HEUCHLING, 
ALD. JAMES A. LONG. 



MISS ALICE H. THOMPSON, 
L. A. CALVIN. 



JOHN R. RICHARDS, 
MRS. HERMAN RIESER. 



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THE ADVISORY COMMISSION 

This Commission is not an ornamental one. It has a real 
and important field of service; it has three functions, by the 
exercise of which the usefulness of our community centers 
may be greatly extended. 

1. The Commission should act as a Board of Visitors. 
Each member will, as a matter of course, visit the community 
center in his own neighborhood. Visiting by members of an 
official commission will greatly stimulate the efforts of the 
local directors of the community centers. Knowing that their 
efforts are being observed and that good work will be com- 
mended, they will re-double their efforts and renew their 
enthusiasm. The existence of an Advisory Commission will 
act as a spur on the work of the Department of Community 
Centers. It will be a source of support when the department 
asks for needed enlargement and extension; it will be quick 
to see any weakness in management and ^eady with sugges- 
tions for improvement. 

2. The Commission should make definite recommenda- 
tions to the Board Committee on Community Centers, and 
through them, to the Board. Many valuable suggestions 
should come from this Commission, which will, through its 
committees, study particular phases of community center 
work. 

3. The Commission can greatly stimulate the participa- 
tion in community center work of agencies nv^w not actively 
co-operating. It should find new volunteer workers. It 
should suggest co-operation to civic and social organizations 
who are not now in active affiliation. It can tie up more 
closely the great educational resources of Chicago to the 
public schools. 



GENERAL PRINCIPLES 



The general principles underlying the furtherance of 
school extension are these: The Board of Education should 
not at the present time furnish new material, but should 
co-ordinate and make available for use, existing material. 
The community centers should not create new organizations 



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but should correlate existing organizations with the school 
house as their common home. 

AMERICANIZATION 

(a) Classes in English and Citizenship: 

The community centers afford a splendid field for Amer- 
icanization work, just as do the evening schools. Informal 
group study in the centers will attract some who find formal 
instruction forbidding, and who will therefore not attend the 
regular evening classes. Conversation groups in English and 
classes for the study of the elements of citizenship shoul 1 be 
a prominent feature of community center activities. Volunteer 
workers should be encouraged. The various civic organiza- 
tions would, if appealed to, furnish competent persons for 
Americanization work. Simple manuals for teaching English 
and citizenship could be furnished by the Board. Wherever 
possible, the worker should be able to speak the language of 
the locality as well as English. 

There has just been established in the U. S. Department 
of the Interior, a Division of Americanization which will have 
regional bureaus in different parts of the country. One will 
doubtless be located here, which will necessitate correlation 
between the federal authorities and the Chicago public 
schools. 

(b) Organizations of Foreign Born: 

Organizations of foreign born citizens must be accus- 
tomed to make use of the school facilities. It should be the 
duty of this Commission to compile a complete list of such 
organizations for the use of the Community Center Depart- 
ment which should co-operate with the local Community 
Center principal in persuading such organizations to use the 
school house and join in community activities. Only in this 
way will the process of Americanization make satisfactory 
progress. 

(c) Community Civics: 

Exhibits in ideal housing, child welfare, recreational 
opportunities, municipal government, etc., if set up in com- 
munity centers and evening schools, can do great good. Sev- 

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eral public and private agencies already have such exhib^s 
prepared. There is an excellent housing exhibit in a cottage 
rented for the purpose adjoining the Dan^e School in an 
Italian neighborhood. Mr. Reynolds, of this Commission, is 
President of the Central Council of Social Agenci. and with 
his colleagues can aid greatly in promoting a wider dev:lop- 
ment of this "preventive" type of educational social work. 

In school communities where there is a large foreign 
born population, exhibits, when held, should be lettered both 
in English and the language of the community. Programs 
should be printed in both languages. This scheme has been 
carried out successfully in a number of centers. 

(d) Library Co-operation: 

Mr. Carl Roden, public librarian, has suggested that at 
least once during the term, there be an excursion by evening 
school classes and by the organizations mating in a commun- 
ity center, to the nearest branch library where, at the library's 
expense, an Americanization program will be held and an 
effort made to set forth the library resources which the tax- 
payers maintain. This idea is thoroughly feasible. The 
library will make every effort to make its program attractive. 
It will correlate more closely the school and the library, and 
bring home particularly to those who have come here from 
European countries the effort that is being made by public 
agencies on every side to draw them into American com- 
munity life. The public library has available excellent travel- 
ing "book chests" on Americanization. These should be on 
hand at every evening school and in each community center. 
The Library Bulletins on Americanization should be in the 
hands of every teacher. These bulletins and the booklets to 
which they refer should be available in reasonable quantity at 
the community centers. 

The library board and the school board are both spending 
the people's money. There should be the closest possible cor- 
relation between them. The two boards should be in constant 
touch in regard to 

1. Location of branch libraries; 

2. Library rooms in school houses; 

3. Use of library facilities by the schools. ^ ... 
Where branch libraries are now located m schools in 

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which there are evening classes or community centers, the 
branches should be kept open in the evening. 

EXHIBITS 

Greater use can easily be made of the exhibits available, 
without expense, for educational purposes. The Field 
Museum has a collection of over 150 splendid exhibits. These 
are having extensive use in day school class-rooms but are 
not being used in the community centers. 

The Chicago Art Institute has available a large number 
of art exhibits, together with lantern slides, and when desired, 
lecturers. 

These exhibits should, in the course of a year, appear in 
every community center. The exhibit need be for only a 
short time. The size and nature of the exhibit can be varied 
according to the space available. There is no expense except 
that of transporting the exhibits to and fro; at least a portion 
of this would be borne by these Institutions themselves. 

The Woman's City Club, Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, 
and many other organizations have exhibits of great merit, 
of which greater use can easily be made. 

When new schools are built, suitable arrangements 
should be considered for a room where traveling exhibits oi 
this nature may be housed. 

FILMS 

Instead of adding to the stock of films owned by the 
Board of Education, which quickly become broken or dead 
stock, the same money or a considerable portion thereof, 
should be used for renting "subjects." Programs should be 
planned by the Community Center Department and sent out 
to the schools, together with all details as to expense, where 
procurable, duration of program, etc. The work of making 
proper selections should not rest on the princij^al alone. 
Programs adapted to the needs of particular groups of 
schools should be made up by someone skilled in the 
organization of educational film programs in the Community 
Center Department. From these the principals should be 
allowed to make their selections. Differing types of schools 



would of course have divergent programs, but there should 
be a central authority and expert ability available for them 
all. The Department of Community Centers should notify 
the schools of this film service and be prepared to co-operate 
in arranging the details. 

A small charge of 2 to 5 cents per person will usually 
defray expenses. Some reserved seats at a higher price is 
a very great and appreciated accommodation. The janitor 
will generally stay an extra hour after school by paying 
him 75 cents or a dollar. These movies can be held between 
3:45 and 4:45 in the afternoon, as well as in the evening. 
The use of the films could be greatly increased in the 
extension activities. It is often very difficult to get a 
licensed operator. One licensed union operator should be 
employed by the Board who should be subject to call and 
give his services wherever needed in the schools. Others 
could be added as the need developed. I» the Lane school 
there are four or five licensed operators, and the principal 
states these operators are in constant demand by other 
schools. 

Mr. L. A. Calvin, of the Patriotic Community Council, 
informs the writer he is able to secure over 1,000,000 feet of 
films on industrial subjects, which will le supplied free. 

The writer is advised that in cases where the school 
building does not now meet with the provisions of the 
fire ordinance, with some inexpensive alterations a film 
machine can be installed which will meet with the sanction 
of the building authorities. At the present time thirty 
schools have film machines with booth, complying with the 
regulations. Three hundred schools have no booth. This 
matter should be taken up at once with the architect to 
see if all the schools cannot make use of film machines, 
which are a tremendous aid in education. Films can be 
used to greater advantage by community centers as well as by 
day and evening schools. 

LANTERN SLIDES. 

The same methods of management apply to lantern 
slides. There are literally thousands of sets available, which 



are not now used for educational purposes. The Board owns 
several hundred sets. 

COMMUNITY MUSIC. 

Good music should be available in every center. The 
various singing and music organizations will gladly furnish 
music either free or at small cost, for the community centers. 
In addition, they will furnish leaders of community singing. 

SPEAKERS' BUREAUS. 

A well organized speakers' bureau, run by the Com- 
munity Center Department, should be at the disposal of 
each school neighborhood. The war workers' organizations 
already have well developed bureaus of this character. The 
University of Chicago Lecture Association has a splendid 
list of speakers. Professor Nathaniel Butler, Director, has 
proffered his aid. 

The Daily News Lecture Bureau is already making 
excellent use of the schools. The News Bureau has demon- 
strated the possibilities. Where a private agency has thus 
shown the way, we should not be slow to follow. 

In many instances, the speaker will contribute his 
services free. When this is not the case, a small admission 
fee will defray expenses. 
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COMMUNITY CENTER DEPARTMENT A CLEARING 

HOUSE. 

How can all these resources above referred to, which 
are offered almost entirely free of charge (exhibits, films, 
slides, music, speakers, book-chests, etc.), be made available 
in a practical way? There must be a scientific, systematic 
scheme of administration. One of the principal functions 
of the Community Center Department is to act as a 
clearmg house for all this valuable material. The depart- 
ment must first list all the available resources of an educa- 
tional character owned and controlled by the various civic 
and social agencies. Then it must organize complete pro- 
grams with economical scheduling and circuiting of 
materials and programs from one center to another 



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^ The principals of the schools must, of course, have 
jurisdiction in the management of their local centers They 
understand best the needs of their school communities The 
director of community centers is continuously in close touch 
with the principals; he must ascertain their needs and see 
that these needs are adequately and promptly met. A 
weekly bulletin should be sent out advising what is avail- 
able and asking what is wanted for immediate use. Placards 
should be posted in every school at least once a month, 
giving the programs planned in the nearby centers. 

EVENING SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY CENTERS. 

At the present time the activities of evening schools 
and community centers are rather sharply divided. Many 
cities have an assistant superintendent who is in charge 
of all school extension work. The two activities should go 
hand in hand. Men who attend evening school will find it 
more attractive if they can bring thsir families, for whom 
some recreational activities are provided. In such case more 
will come. Class instruction is not necessarily interfered 
with by having recreational activities going on in other 
rooms in the building. 

Just as it is easier for the families of those who attend 
evening classes to come on evening school nights, so, 
conversely, on center nights, it is easier to get the presence 
of the men for instruction. Informal classes in English, 
in the elements of citizenship, in city geography, in dress- 
making, etc., should be held on Community Center nights 
and made a part of the activities. The Community Center 
can include instruction. The evening school need not pre- 
clude recreational activities and informal instruction. 

It should be noted that by combining evening school 
and community center activities, janitor service is cut down 
instead of increased, while there is no additional expense 
for light and heat. 

PAID WORKERS. 

When a worker is required who can talk both English 
and the language of the particular locality, and it is 
necessary to offer compensation to get the right person, 

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the director should have the right to issue a special certifi- 
cate after, of course, satisfying himself that the person to 
be employed is properly qualified. The same is true of 
classes in dressmaking, millinery and the like, which can be 
carried on in the centers. 

Volunteer workers alone, important as they are, cannot 
make a successful community center. Compensation, no mat- 
ter how modest, means responsibility and efficiency. The suc- 
cessful community center requires a number of paid workers. 
This system involves great elasticity in "hiring and firing." 
It means an authority in the Community Center Depart- 
ment possessing discretionary power to hire persons for 
temporary purposes; it presupposes the existence of the 
necessary discretion, so that no abuses may creep in. The 
centers then can expand or contract according to the com- 
munity's needs. The pay of these temporary workers ranges 
from $1.50 to $5.00 a night. In one successful community 
center system there is at the larger centers a paid door 
tender, a voucher who sees that only persons vouched for 
are admitted to the dances, an athletic director, a natatorium 
director, a director of the billiard room, orchestra leader, 
glee club director, library attendant, teacher of sewing, mil- 
linery, citizenship, etc. The centers are open four or five 
evenings a week. The janitors are paid 50 to 75 cents 
additional for each extra room used. The principals are 
given a minimum with a bonus system for increase in 
attendance. The teachers in special subjects receive a fixed 
sum per person. When a class gets down tu ten it auto- 
matically closes. As a result the teachers do their best to 
make the classes attractive. The principal is allowed to 
employ and discharge, but every person who gets on the 
payroll must be approved by the central office. No certifi- 
cate is required for these temporary workers. 

A beginning should be made in the direction of greater 
elasticity here. The Director of Community Centers should 
have a special fund, out of which he should be allowed to 
hire temporary employes and experiment with this system in 
two or three centers. If found successful, the amount set 
aside should be increased and the system extended. 

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SECRETARIES 

Can the principal do the work necessary to a successful 
community center? Should he be allowed a clerk or secre- 
tary for two or three evenings a week to do this work? This 
is a very difficult point and a fundamental one: in order to 
have the schoolhouse function properly as the center of the 
neighborhood, someone must do the mechanical work and 
do it well, sending out notices, making telephone calls, 
taking care of the printing of programs, etc Cadets (Nor- 
mal School graduates who are awaiting assignments) often 
will do this work Their present compensation is $1.00 an 
evening. This should be increased. In the larger centers, 
covering wider districts, it may be necessary to employ a 
highly specialized community assistant. 

SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION. 

Should this Commission have a secretary? The writer 
believes that it should. The amount of work necessary to 
be done requires the services of one who has a thorough 
working knowledge of community center activities, and who 
knows and is in touch with city and national agencies. 
There will be many committees. Without continuous secre- 
tarial assistance they cannot be satisfactorily maintained or 
kept in working touch with each other. 

The secretary should keep in close touch with the 
representatives of the various participating organizations, 
and see that the correlation between them and the Com- 
munity Center Department, the Committee on Community 
Centers and this Commission is continuously maintained. 
The Committee and this Commission should be the mediat- 
ing agent between the various civic organizations of the 
community and the Community Center Department. 

This, however, is not to replace the necessary super- 
visory relation between the Community Center Department, 
the Superintendent's office and the principals of schools 

having centers. . , , .- 

The secretary should make reports to this body ot 
activities which are meeting with speciil success and deserve 
extension; likewise of activities which are not successful 
and need to be curtailed. Many of the members of this 



Commission are closely identified with particular organiza- 
tions. The Secretary's services should be at the disposal of 
any member who desires a study made and report prepared 
on any particular phase of the correlation of existing agencies 
which we are endeavoring to establish. 

DURATION OF COMMUNITY CENTER WORK. 

The gardening activities go hand in hand with com- 
munity center work. The schoolhouse is the best agency 
for the exhibits and for talks on the subject. Work in 
gardening, outside games and athletics, dances, pa^ iotic con- 
certs and assemblies should bridge over the period between 
the close of the schools in the spring and their opening in 
the fall. There is no reason why the community center 
activity should be entirely discontinued throughout the sum- 
mer if there is a demand for the centers remaining open. 

NUMBER OF EVENINGS A WEEK. 

The question of the number of evenings a week on 
which the schools should be open should be left to the 
discretion of the Department of Community Centers co-oper- 
ating with the local principals. There should be no limitation. 
If a community demands that the schoolhouse be open six 
evenings a week and there are sufficient activities for each 
evening, it should remain open. (In the estimates in the 
Budget for 1919, now being made up, $100,000 is included for 
community center purposes, so that this expense can be 
met.) On the other hand, it is better to have a school open 
twice a week and used intensively, than have it used in 
casual fashion six evenings a week. 

HEALTH AND SANITATION. 

The education of the local community in public health 
by exhibitions, lectures and entertainments, should have a 
place in the community center program. 

RECREATIONAL CO-OPERATION. 

There is at present a correlation existing between the 
park recreational centers and the schools. The City Parks 
and Playgrounds Bureau furnishes attendants for a number 

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of playgrounds adjoining schools. The school gymnasium, 
if kept open after 3:30 would undoubtedly be greatly used 
by the patrons of adjoining playgrounds. This, however, 
involves considerable expense. A committee has been 
formed, consisting of the Secretary of the City Bureau of 
Parks and Playgrounds, the City Superintendent of Play- 
grounds and Beaches, and representatives of the West 
Chicago Park Commissioners, the South Park Commi ..ioners 
and the Lincoln Park Commissioners, which will make a 
report to this Commission on better correlation of parks, 
playgrounds and schv^ols. This correlation is in reality a 
part of school extension and is therefore dealt with herein. 

COMMUNITY COUNCILS. 

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The ending of the war leaves a large number of neigh- 
borhood organizations in existence which, during the war, 
did excellent work in unifying and cementing the interests 
of the community. These organizations, which are really 
educational in character, should be continued with the center, 
of their activities in the schoolhouse. Mr. L. A. Calvin. 
Secretary of the Patriotic Council of Cook County, advises 
that there are some sixty men's organizations. Miss Alice 
Thompson, of the State Council of Defense, Women's 
Committee,- advises that there are some forty women's 
organizations. All of these organizations have officers and 
are going concerns, and are eager to continue community 
activity. The Parent-Teachers' Association and other bodies 
are doing important community work. These various 
organizations should be co-ordinated with the school as their 
common home. Just how this co-ordination is to be accom- 
plished remains to be worked out. 

The war organizations, however, have tremendously 
lightened the difficulties in the way of doing this. Mr. 
Eugene Lies, of the War Camp Community Service, Mrs 
William Hefferan, of the Parent-Teachers' Association and 
Mr. Calvin and Miss Thompson are members of this Com- 
mission and can make suggestions. 

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None of the above is given dogmatically. It is designed 
as material for discussion by the Commission. Those pro- 
posals which are approved, however, it is planned to push 
vigorously and without delay. 



MAX LOEB, 

Chairman, Committee on 

Community Centers, 
Board of Education. 



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